Arkansas probate leads and inheritance data, by county.
If you are researching Arkansas probate leads, the public court file is only one part of the inherited-property market. USLeadList starts with death and property records, typically about five weeks after death, and generates an average of 1351 records a month across Arkansas.
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Arkansas counties
Browse 75 counties.Every Arkansas county has its own page. Highlighted counties currently generate the largest monthly record volume.
How inherited property moves in Arkansas
Verified state rules behind the county data.Probate rules matter because they determine when a public court record appears and which inherited properties never appear in an ordinary probate case.
What changes for an heir
Arkansas imposes no inheritance tax, and its estate tax is inoperative: Ark. Code 26-59-103 provides that the estate tax chapter ceases to be operative when the federal credit for state death taxes is repealed for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2005, and 26-59-106(c)(2) provides that if no federal estate tax is imposed on a transfer, no Arkansas estate tax is imposed. Amendment 79 limits the annual increase in taxable assessed value after a countywide reappraisal to 5 percent for a homestead and 10 percent for other real property, and Ark. Code 26-26-1123 ties reassessment at 20 percent of appraised value to a person selling. What keeps inherited houses out of court is the beneficiary deed under 18-12-608 and the small estate affidavit under 28-41-101, which reaches real property where the estate, excluding homestead and allowances, does not exceed $100,000.
Where probate records appear
Circuit Court, Probate Division Search ARCourts, the Arkansas Judiciary public case search at caseinfo.arcourts.gov, which replaced Public CourtConnect. It covers courts using the Contexte case management system, all circuit courts report through it under Administrative Order 8, and its case type list includes decedent estate administration, small estate, ancillary administration, trust administration, wills for safekeeping, guardianship and conservatorship.
Ways property can avoid ordinary probate
Beneficiary deed under Ark. Code 18-12-608, captioned Beneficiary deeds, terms, recording required, which conveys an ownership interest in real property on the owner's death, vests nothing in the grantee before that death, cannot be overridden by the owner's will, and is valid only if recorded with the county recorder before the owner dies. Enacted by Act 1918 of 2005 and amended by Act 570 of 2021, which rewrote 18-12-608(a)(1)(B) concerning the terms of beneficiary deeds. Secondarily, the small estate affidavit under 28-41-101, which can pass real property.
Small-estate route
Affidavit for collection of a small estate by distributee under Ark. Code 28-41-101: no petition for appointment of a personal representative may be pending or granted, 45 days must have elapsed since death, and the value less encumbrances of all property owned by the decedent at death must not exceed $100,000, excluding the homestead and any statutory allowances for a spouse or minor children. Real property may be collected this way, and the affidavit must give a legal description and valuation of it. A claim presented to the distributee within three months from the first publication of the notice required under 28-41-101 is preserved (Act 1021 of 2017). The $100,000 figure was set by Act 899 of 2005, replacing $50,000, and is unchanged as of 2026.
Timing investors should understand
Claims against a decedent's estate are forever barred unless verified to the personal representative or filed with the court within six months after the date of the first publication of notice to creditors (Ark. Code 28-50-101(a)); the same six month period appears in the published notice of appointment (28-40-111(a)(1)), and a copy of that notice must be served on known heirs, devisees and creditors within one month after first publication (28-40-111(a)(4)). Where no letters are issued and no notice is published, claims are barred five years after the date of death (28-50-101(d)). A small estate affidavit may not be used until 45 days after death, and where the small estate contains real property the distributee must publish the notice required by 28-41-101, after which a claim presented to the distributee within three months from the date of that first publication is preserved (Act 1021 of 2017). On a final account the court sets a hearing no earlier than 60 days after filing unless the competent interested parties waive notice (28-53-103).
Arkansas inheritance volume
Updated monthly · September 2026 edition.Newly inherited residential properties recorded in Arkansas, from the same database that builds the lists. Published nationally in the Inheritance Property Index.
Biggest Arkansas counties by volume
Free to cite with attribution: USLeadList Inheritance Property Index, September 2026 edition. See every state and download the data.
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